1893 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1893?
- January 13, 1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- January 17, 1893 – The Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- January 21, 1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
- February 1, 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
- March 1, 1893 – Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
- March 18, 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
- April 1, 1893 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
- April 6, 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- May 1, 1893 – The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- May 10, 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
- June 13, 1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death.
- July 11, 1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
- August 14, 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- September 7, 1893 – The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
- September 16, 1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- September 20, 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
- October 28, 1893 – Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer’s death.
- November 7, 1893 – Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
- November 29, 1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.
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